{"product_id":"salute-by-ken-bolton-9781925780406","title":"Salute","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGee these poems be limber, you think, flipping through the pages, admiring, here, the cut of this poem's jib, there the poise \u0026amp; rancour of another.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFor this is a book that might save your heart, a book to pull from your jacket pocket at some moment of last judgement \u0026amp; wave at the gate keeper, a tall and bearded dude, surely a hipster - avant la lettre but also after it - outside of time in fact, where final judgements are, and truth and poetry. You wave it at him. It's a talisman, dude, you say. 'An earnest,' says the figure, 'of your capacity for cool and rigour?' He nods and you smile. You both smile - and he waves you in.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePraise for Ken Bolton:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'...bitchy, dreamy, acute...a deeply serious - \u0026amp; witty \u0026amp; almost self-canceling - consciousness at work' - Lyn McCredden, \u003ci\u003eHeat\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Easy to appreciate, lightheartedness is not a natural or easy gift, and Bolton's - brilliantly articulate - shimmers with a sense of being 'amusing \u0026amp; sort of\/ Crooked in relation to things' - Nicholas Birns, \u003ci\u003eTransnational Literature\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47471499378924,"sku":"9781925780406","price":27.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781925780406-salute.jpg?v=1775245243","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.pro\/products\/salute-by-ken-bolton-9781925780406","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}